On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:35:21AM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> Funny that Indonesian seems to attract many conlangers. Maybe because it's the
> most successful conlang of all times ;))) .
Indonesian is a conlang, eh? And here I've been repeatedly told by a
Philipino lady that Tagalog is an invented language...
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> As for a language like you describe, there's always my Notya, my "neither-verb-
> nor-noun" language :)) . It has all the features you describe. It doesn't even
> have anything like particles or pre/postpositions. All the words belong to the
> same category. Even inflections are very few: 2 suffixes which can appear in
> two different states, thus making four suffixes and that's all. 3 rules of
> grammar are enough to explain all the grammar there is. The rest is purely
> lexical :)) .
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Mmmmm!! Now you're REALLY inspiring me to craft a new language for the
inhabitants (or shall I say, miscreants) of a certain Black Harbour, a
parallel universe to Ferochromon. I had been toying with the idea of a
conlang with a very restricted set of morphemes, and very minimal grammar.
It was supposed to be an "impressionistic" language, where you don't say
things directly, but allude to them using combinations of "basic
allusions" (which are sorta like the fundamental morphemes).
Anyway, this language was supposed to be as minimal as possible in terms
of possible morphemes and syntax. And what morphemes it does have
certainly will not be in terms of nouns or verbs or any of the traditional
categories.
T
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